Purdue Boilermakers

The Purdue Boilermakers are the athletic teams at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. They compete in the Big Ten conference, and the school colors are old gold and black. Famous athletes include John Wooden, Len Dawson, Bob Griese, Drew Brees, Glenn Robinson and Rick Mount. Longtime basketball coach Gene Keady won 550 games over 25 years at the university.

Duke was in good position to be ranked No. 1 in The Associated Press poll before landing Marvin Bagley III. Once the nation's top recruit decided to reclassify for this season, the Blue Devils became the voters' clear choice. Led by Bagley and senior...

There's still a little buzz in and around Northern Illinois from its upset stunner of Nebraska last weekend.
"A little bit but not too much because we know we have to get ready for San Diego State," Huskies senior running back Jordan Huff said in a phone...

Grading the hires of new college football coaches is an offseason tradition and an exercise in educated guess work.
Still, college football writers do it every year, ticking off fans of teams that receive poor marks and opening themselves up for...

She didn't like their tournament seed. She didn't like the ticket distribution in Bridgeport.
Maryland coach Brenda Frese must have really hated the final score Saturday at Webster Bank Arena.
This wasn't supposed to be like a lot of years. This was...

The NCAA Tournament's first weekend closed with a flourish, a Sunday full of scintillating games after three days of good-not-always-great basketball.
That put the madness back in March and should carry over into a regional round filled with great...

GREENVILLE, S.C. — The Atlantic Coast Conference's strong regular season only stood to set up a first-weekend flameout in the NCAA Tournament. The league had a record nine bids, but North Carolina is the only one alive in the Sweet 16. And the South...

This year's NCAA Tournament has a chance to be just as good as 2016, when Kris Jenkins capped March Madness the most dramatic way possible with a buzzer-beating three-pointer to win Villanova a title. North Carolina fans may not have liked it, but it...

There are 63 other women's basketball teams in the nation who dream they can win the national championship. Good luck with that.
Of course, it's going to require a tremendous amount of effort and luck for anyone to unseat No. 1 UConn (32-0) as it...

Wisconsin tight end Troy Fumagalli made a leaping 8-yard touchdown catch in the fourth quarter and the Badgers won 24-16 in the Cotton Bowl in Arlington, Texas, on Monday to deny Western Michigan an undefeated season. The TD catch by Fumagalli with 14...

INDIANAPOLIS — Paul Chryst and James Franklin left the outside world behind Friday. As college football pundits debated whether two Big Ten teams should make the four-team playoff, the two coaches vying for a Big Ten championship Saturday night trained...

Teams To Watch
1. Duke: The consensus No. 1, the Blue Devils have the usual array of top-level recruits and a strong returning cast, led by Grayson Allen, and Coach K.
2. Oregon: The Ducks, who could meet UConn on Maui, won the first NCAA Tournament...

CINCINNATI — Sure, the Big 12 will be watching when two of the American Athletic Conference's top teams kick off on Thursday night. No. 6 Houston and Cincinnati haven't hidden their desires to jump to a Power Five league. And now they get to show...

Each week, beat writers in every American Athletic Conference market, including The Courant's Mike Anthony, vote to create AAC power rankings and provide a brief comment on the team they cover. Here is how the 12-member panel sees the conference coming...

Before Saturday's game, Houston's biggest concern against Lamar was how it might perform without starting quarterback Greg Ward Jr., out with a sore shoulder.But it soon became apparent that No. 6 Houston would have larger concerns, a 3-hour, 36-minute...

At West Lafayette, Ind., quarterback Hayden Moore passed for three touchdowns and ran for two more Saturday, leading Cincinnati to a 38-20 win over Purdue. Until Saturday, the Bearcats (2-0) had lost 11 consecutive road games against Big Ten Conference...

Beat reporters for American Athletic Conference football teams are participating in a weekly vote to assemble conference power rankings, a 1-12 list with analysis of each team. The results will run in The Courant every Thursday. The beat reporter for each...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Three quarterbacks will be in the spotlight on Thursday night when the Saints and Patriots open their preseason schedules.It will be just another tuneup for two of the league's most productive veteran signal callers, Tom Brady and Drew...

Several men with Connecticut ties were nominated for the College Football Hall of Fame. Here are bios of people with local ties, followed by the complete list and press release sent out by the foundation:Rich Diana, Yale-running back-named a...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It is game time.
The hard and soft stuff leading up to the bowl game is over.
UConn (6-6) and Marshall (9-3) come on out to play in the St. Petersburg Bowl Saturday (11 a.m., ESPN).
Both teams have highly ranked defenses, but...